Organic Systems Sponsors UN’s International Year of Family Farming

03 May 2013

Organic Systems’ General Manager, Brendan Hoare, is the Oceania representative and facilitator of World Consultative Committee to The International Year of Family Farming in 2014.

This initiative was successfullypromoted by the World Rural Forum and supported by over 360 international civil society and farmers’ organizations. This worldwide celebration, declared by the United Nations General Assembly, with the motto ‘Feeding the world, caring for the Earth’ aims to become a tool to stimulate active policies for sustainable development of agricultural systems based farmer families, communal units, indigenous groups, cooperatives and fishing families.

“Serving those most in need is core to our company’s values and we are very proud to be a part of this work.”